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I have been downstream from our greatest trout hatchery in Tellico, Tennessee dozens of times at 4AM the day of a release and the banks are elbow to elbow with people waiting for that magical minute when legal fishing begins and they all have ultra lite spinning reels or plain jane Zebco 33's and corn or eggs or Mepps Aglia's which made your last cover but not a fly in sight.
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The action allowed construction on the Tellico Dam in Tennessee to proceed, stopping up the Little Tennessee River and destroying the home of a newly discovered species of fish, the snail darter.
The Politics of Protection Katherine Mangu-Ward 2011
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If I go to Tellico or somewhere the fish can survive then after the first year they are as wild as wild gets.
A Stock Argument 2008
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When the prospective impoundment of water behind the nearly completed Tellico dam threatened to eradicate the only known population of the snail darter (a fish related to perch), the Supreme Court concluded that the then-current “plain language” of the ESA mandated that the gates of the dam not be closed:
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The Tellico situation was also subject to P.L. 95-632 that provided for an expedited ESC process and an automatic exemption, if the ESC did not reach a decision within a specified time.
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The ESC denied an exemption for Tellico (on a 7-0 vote), but Congress enacted an exemption in P.L. 96-69, and the dam was completed.
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His buddy shot it they live in east Tennessee near the Ocoee and Tellico bear reserves. 30-06 one shot ... random ruminations ... my Browning lever action .22 shoots shorts, longs, long rifles whatever you want to feed it.
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These words have teeth, as was shown in the famous case of the snail darter versus the Tellico dam.
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Etner told a bystander that he had found "the fish that will stop the Tellico dam."
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Four times a year, these multiday United Rockcrawling and Off-Road Challenges turn the small town of Jellico (two hours from Tellico) into the center of the universe for 100 crawlers and 9,900 spectators who've driven hundreds of miles to watch a sport that combines an elegant downhill slalom with the Demolition Derby.
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